WRITER

Ruta Sepetys

1967 - Today

Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys (Lithuanian: Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. She is a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, winner of the Carnegie Medal, and has been honored by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been awarded fellowships from the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford, the Rockefeller Foundation, and is the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament and NATO. Her work has been published in over sixty countries and forty languages and is currently in development for film and television. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Ruta Sepetys is the 7,083rd most popular writer (down from 7,023rd in 2024), the 15,902nd most popular biography from United States (down from 15,850th in 2019) and the 1,115th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruta Sepetys ranks 7,083 out of 7,302. Before her are Ishmael Reed, Bi Feiyu, Geoff Ryman, Tetiana Chornovol, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Eva García Sáenz de Urturi. After her are Kateryna Kalytko, Nicolas Mathieu, Yiyun Li, Joseph Finder, Cleanth Brooks, and Peter Hedges.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

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Ishmael Reed
1938 - Present
HPI: 45.23
Rank: 7,077
Bi Feiyu
HPI: 45.23
Rank: 7,078
Geoff Ryman
1951 - Present
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 7,079
Tetiana Chornovol
1979 - Present
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 7,080
Viet Thanh Nguyen
1971 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 7,081
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 7,082
Ruta Sepetys
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 7,083
Kateryna Kalytko
1982 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 7,084
Nicolas Mathieu
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 7,085
Yiyun Li
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 7,086
Joseph Finder
1958 - Present
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 7,087
Cleanth Brooks
1906 - 1994
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 7,088
Peter Hedges
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 7,089

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Ruta Sepetys ranks 814. Before her are Robert Leroux, Deion Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, Jens Martin Knudsen, Fikret Orman, and Alex Azar. After her are Michel Lafis, Pieter Vink, Jean-Michel Monin, Jaime Yzaga, Frank John Hughes, and Mikhail Yakimovich.

Others Born in 1967

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Robert Leroux
ATHLETE
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.23
Rank: 808
Deion Sanders
AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 809
Kellyanne Conway
POLITICIAN
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 810
Jens Martin Knudsen
SOCCER PLAYER
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 811
Fikret Orman
BUSINESSPERSON
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 812
Alex Azar
POLITICIAN
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 813
Ruta Sepetys
WRITER
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 814
Michel Lafis
CYCLIST
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 815
Pieter Vink
REFEREE
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 816
Jean-Michel Monin
CYCLIST
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 817
Jaime Yzaga
TENNIS PLAYER
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 818
Frank John Hughes
ACTOR
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 819
Mikhail Yakimovich
HANDBALL PLAYER
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.11
Rank: 820